, 1887-02-10
More Particulars Of the Fright
fal Railroad Disaster.
1t IL Reduced but the List of
Dead Still Terribly Long.
4 Graphic Description OF the
Scene by a Survivor.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VI. Feb.
G.-Probably 5000 people visited the
scene of the railroad accident to-day.
The only trains run were those for the
accommodation Of officials and for the
carrying of wounded and dead, conse-
quently all manner of conveyapces
were brought into requsition, many
teams coming from distance of forty
and fifty miles and centering here in
long professions. Seven or eight bod
les were to-day identified by friends,
and many heartrending scenes we're
witnessed. II is utterly impossible to
identify more than ten or twelve of
those recovered, the clothing being en-
tirelJ gone and the bodies burned to u
crisp Conductor Sturtevant died to-
DAY and his body was taken to his
home by special train. Mr.. Tewsk-
bury, of Randolph, whose leg and arm
were broken, was taken home last
night by special train and is reported
as doing well.
THE WORK OF RECOVERING
wreckage and bodies has been pushed
vigorously all day. The ruins have
been minutely searched and propably
all recovered that can be. The iron
work of the cars has all been pulled
over and cleared away. The total
number of bodies recovered to-day is
five, one woman and four men. Drs.
Grinnell and Burgham of Burlington
have to-day thoroughly examined the
charred remains of the victims thus
far recovered for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the number. They report it to
be up to this morning just twenty
seven, which, with the five found to-
day, makes thrty-two recovered thus
far. This is verified by Lieut. Cover
nor Fuller. Mr. Fuller is doing every
thing in his power for all the sufferers.
He has been instrumental in establish
ing a bureau Of information. All com
munications regarding passengers
should be addressed to Henry f..
Tirksr, station agent, White River
Junction.
FROM ALL INFORMATION
that can be obtained ut this time from
connecting roads, ticket agents, and
survivors of the disaster, il is believed
the total number of souls on board
the Inflated train including train men,
were eighty one. OF these thirty-two
are accounted for as above, thirty-five
are in the care of surgeons, one died
to-day and nine left on the same train
with the injured, leaving only four un-
accounted for. II is understood that
there were some children without tick
cts so the above figures may beslightly
changed. Every article Of clothing,
scrap of paper or other thing found is
being carefully saved for the purpose
of identification, and parties having
friends unaccounted for will be afford
ed every means or clue for the identi-
tication of the lost or unknown.
HARD TO GET PARTICULARS.
Little idea can be formed of the diff
iiculties in the way of obtaining re-
port of the accident that would give
the public correct idea of the con-
dition of things at the time of the ac-
cident, as ever since the thermometer
has registered from five to fifteen de-
grees below. zero and the suffering
from cold is intense. There are only
two or three farm houses within two
miles of the wreck and these are filled
with wounded. Others are scattered
along for three or four miles with no
means of communication except by
train. All the officers OF the road are
on the ground and everything possible
is being done for the wounded and
dead. Hundreds of people searching
for friends are here. and nearly every
newspaper in New England has repre-
sentatives at the scene OF the wreck.
Work was suspended at dark last
night, owing to the severity of the
weather, but was resumed this morn
ing.
THE WATER IN WHITE RIVER
At the place of the accident it
not more then five or six feet deep,
with but little current and the ice is
purhaps fourteen inches thick. The
falling OF the cars upon it and the
heat OF the fire melted the ice. But
little of the personal effects of the
passengers were left to view. A COM
parison Of the tickets taken up by
conductors on incoming and connect
ing trains largely reduces the number
of persons on the train. Conductor
Andrew Bean, of the Boston & Lowell
railroad, gives the exact number of
tickets taken up for points beyond
where the accident occurred as thirty
six of which sixteen were collected in
the car, Pilgrim" from Boston.
Conductor Barrell, OF the Connecticut
! railway. counts his as just thirty,
twelve being in the car st. Albans,
from Springfield. This leaves only q
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